Education Kits

The NT Legal Aid Commission has developed education kits to help trainers and communities understand the law. These education kits contain a variety of materials to help you provide legal education and training to community or staff groups. For more information, please contact the community legal education team at cle@legalaid.nt.gov.au or phone 1800 019 343.

Darwin Community Law Toolkit

The Community Law Toolkit is a package of education materials for services supporting Darwin Aboriginal communities. It includes guides, legal information in plain language, activities, handouts, and recommended resources about four areas of law: housing, money, family violence, and child protection. To get a copy of the kit, you need to book in for a training session by emailing cle@legalaid.nt.gov.au or calling 1800 019 343.

Australia and my family: What are the laws?

This educational resource contains videos and activities for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. You can order a free copy from us by contacting cle@legalaid.nt.gov.au. Please contact our education team at cle@legalaid.nt.gov.au to arrange training or education sessions using this material.

What’s the law? Australian law for new arrivals

This educational DVD has ten simple stories in Basic English dealing with the most common legal issues experienced by recently arrived migrants and refugees.

The DVD is suitable for use with adult ESL learners or education sessions for groups with limited English language skills. There are student activity sheets to support each story, and teacher answer sheets. This DVD was produced by National Legal Aid.

You can order a free copy of the education kit, which includes the DVD with all 10 stories and accompanying activity sheets and resources. You can also view all of these stories online and download copies of the activity sheets and answer sheets.

Videos

Activity sheets

This resource was produced by Legal Aid Commissions throughout Australia who assert moral rights under the Copyright Act. This material may be reproduced, or excerpted, provided it is not changed, and authorship of Legal Aid Commissions is acknowledged.

The material in this publication is intended as a general guide only. Readers should not act on the basis of any material in this publication without getting legal advice about their own particular situations. The legal aid commission in this state or territory expressly disclaims any liability howsoever caused to any person in respect of any action taken in reliance on the contents of this publication.

Cop This

This learning sequence has been developed to be used in conjunction with the Cop This! booklet to educate young people about their rights when dealing with police. This resource includes teaching sequences, interactive activities, handouts and other teaching resources.

Got a fine?

Got a fine? is a kit for service providers who are helping clients with fines problems. The NT Legal Aid Commission provides training about how to use this kit with clients. Please contact cle@legalaid.nt.gov.au for more information, or request a training session.